Instagram photo of Memphis haunted maze deemed offensive by visitors

11:15 AM,
Oct. 7, 2013

This photo on Instagram depicts one of the scenes in the Mid-South Maze, a Halloween attraction. At issue for some is the young white man with dark makeup on, a tactic some are calling black face and insensitive.

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A popular Halloween attraction in Memphis went from scary to offensive for some when a photo of one of the scenes was put on Instagram. The photo depicted an executioner next to a young man in black face hanging from a noose.

"The issue is you have a Caucasian man with a young boy, not even an African American boy, but a young boy with black face. (It's) almost like minstrel times just hanging from a noose. It's something that shouldn't be tolerated," visitor Timothy Moore told Action News 5 WMCTV in Memphis.

The Mid-South Maze has been in the Memphis area for 13 years, the TV station reported, and ...